MS Publisher

3:30pm – 4:15pm: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 & Wednesday, September 24, 2008
National Technology Standards for Teachers:
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
○ c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of
digital-age media and formats
○ d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and
use information resources to support research and learning
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
○ a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to
improve student learning;
Teachers Will:
• Explore the availability of MS Publisher’s templates: newsletters, calendars, brochures, and
business cards.
• Create a business card to provide parents with current information about themselves and their
classes.
• Design and describe our school by publishing a brochure about the building in which they work
(curriculum, AYP, extracurricular activities, athletics, special events, plusses for our district).
• Manipulate a template to create a simple newsletter about what has happened in their class thus
far this year.
Procedure:
1. Introduce MS Publisher – different from Word; must insert text boxes to write, headlines,
graphics, captions, etc.
2. Explore the beginning page of publisher – examine all the different possibilities to make either
from a blank version or use a premade template that you can customize to your liking.
3. First Activity– create a business card for their personal class. Choose a premade template to
start with and then customize it. Add name, address, phone contact, email, wikispace, etc. Add
graphics and format font if needed.
4. Second Activity – work with a partner or group of 3 to create a brochure about their building.
What are the pluses of their building or grade level. List items such as curriculum, special
events, upcoming activities, discipline procedures, attendance, class times, sports, anything
special they would like to share. These brochures will be shared with the rest of the group using
the “teacher computer” screen. Discuss how to:
•
• align text
• insert graphics (format the graphics – tight, square, etc.)
• increase/decrease font size
• picture captions
• 2 or 3 column text boxes
• linking text boxes to allow overflow of text.
5.
 6. Third Activity– Display a sample newsletter from my class last year. Next choose a template to
customize as a newsletter for their classroom. Then work on creating their newsletter: wizard,
page numbers, coloroptions. Review using various columns of text and linking text boxes to
allow for text overflow. Practice changing fonts and adding borders around text boxes. Add
pictures and captions; format the pictures around the text.
7. EXTRA:If time allows, create a poster without a template. Practice inserting text boxes and
picture files. Formatting the various objects: font changes, alignments, layout (send back, bring
front), text wrapping (tight, square, in front, behind), and use the drawing tools to create other
objects.

Closing:
• Teachers will share with the group what they have created and how they may use these ideas in
their classes.
Assessment:
• Monitor the teachers while they are performing each of the tasks described above; help when
needed.
• Ask teachers to email me activities they do in their classes in order for it to be shared with others
later in the year.
• Teachers will complete the ACT 48 evaluation page.
 MS Excel
4:15pm – 5:00pm: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 & Wednesday, September 24, 2008
National Technology Standards for Teachers:
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
○ c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-
age media and formats
○ d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use
information resources to support research and learning
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
○ a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve
student learning;
Teachers Will:
• Manipulate a premade spreadsheet in order to practice formatting cells.
• Analyze a set of data by using several formulas: sum and average.
• Create a spreadsheet displaying made up test data
•
Procedure:
1. Open the spreadsheet entitled Excel Training Sept 08
2. Work with Sheet 1 – First rename it to PSSA Data.
a. Resize columns
b. Wrap text; alignment
c. Add gridlines
d. Change font
e. Color cells
f. Merge cells for titles
g. Find the sum and average of the various columns and rows.
3. Work with Sheet 2 – Rename it “Presidents”
a. Resize columns.
b. Color the headings
c. Add gridlines
d. Insert columns between the name parts; insert a column before column A – use the concatenate
formula.
e. Hide columns
f. Insert a column after zip – use concatenate again except insert a column between city/state and
add a comma; show how to drag/copy by pulling down the small black box in the corner of the
cell
g. Sort the data by L Name field even though it is hidden
4. Work with Sheet 3 – Rename it “Cookie Sales”
a. Resize columns
b. Format the “price column” to show as currency with 2 decimals
c. Add a column between quantity and price to determine the number of dozens sold
d. Determine the total amount earned; determine the overall total earned
e. Create a bar graph showing the cookies sold and showing the amount of money earned for each
cookie (highlight the first two columns, then press the control key and highlight the money
earned column)
 5. Create their own spreadsheet and graph using the following data: Race for Time
a. Create the spreadsheet in sheet 4 – call it “race”
b. Insert a column between columns between Fname, MI, and LName; place a space in the cell and
copy it down the columns.
c. Insert a column before the Fname column and use the concatenate formula [=concatenate(B2,
C2, D2, E2, F2)] to create a column called Name
d. Then hide columns B, C, D, E, F
e. Insert a column between Trial 3 and Race Time – call it Average Trial Times
f. Find the average of the 3 trials [=average(g2,h2,i2)]
g. Then create a graph of the trials.
h. Next create a graph of the average trial and the race time to see how their trials compared to their
actual race time. Who won the race?
Fname MI Lname Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Race Time
John P Smith 4.25 mins 3.47 mins 4.10 mins 3.50 mins
Less T Lane 4.07 mins 3.45 mins 3.37 mins 3.30 mins
Jim P Jones 4.15 mins 4.05 mins 3.35 mins 3.45 mins
i. Create the spreadsheet in sheet 4 – call it “race”
j. Insert a column between columns between Fname, MI, and LName; place a space in the cell and
copy it down the columns.
k. Insert a column before the Fname column and use the concatenate formula [=concatenate(B2,
C2, D2, E2, F2)] to create a column called Name
l. Then hide columns B, C, D, E, F
m. Insert a column between Trial 3 and Race Time – call it Average Trial Times
n. Find the average of the 3 trials [=average(g2,h2,i2)]
o. Then create a graph of the trials.
p. Next create a graph of the average trial and the race time to see how their trials compared to their
actual race time. Who won the race?
Closing:
• Discuss how they can use Excel in their classes or do use it currently in their classes.
Assessment:
• Monitor the teachers while they are performing each of the tasks described above; help when needed.
• Review their independent work (task 5) to check that all items were completed.
• Ask teachers to email me activities they do in their classes in order for it to be shared with others later in
the year.
• Teachers will complete the ACT 48 evaluation page.